←Recommendations of The Second Annual Administration Building Takeover And Slumber Party

When the past and the present converge, memory can draw natural lines of demarcation between recollections and truth. Ian Thai gives us wonderful, quirky comedic characters and employs a successful use of flash back to allow us to engage in a dance down nostalgia lane that is very satisfying. A unique play in scope that will prove a wonderful trigger for personal recall of your own "then and now".

I laughed out loud more than once reading Thal's deft and agile prose. His characters possess unique voices, brimming with literary/historical/philosophical allusions and irreverent humor which authentically capture the competitive cleverness unique to the verbal sparring of smart early-twenty-somethings.

What I find most resonant is the play's exploration of nostalgia, and the mythology of self created from year to year and across the decades. Thal's young characters are working overtime to define their identities, while their older selves variously long for, criticize or reimagine who they once were.

An ever critical needed spotlight on college administrations that hike tuition costs enormously while reducing services. Well done.

A few things stood out for me in Ian Thal’s gleefully satiric comedy: the nostalgia for a time when we fervently believed passion was enough to change the world; the precise look at the absolute fatuousness of college administrations and their steadfast inability to ever truly listen to their students; and – as mentioned before – that fabulous pillow fight. Well done, Ian!

IAN THAL’s play, “The Second Annual Administration Building Takeover and Slumber Party”, is a marvelous play, which is timely, interesting, instructive, and entertaining. The four characters are seen as college students and forty-year-olds. I highly recommend this play. Audiences will love it. BRAVO!

This is a beautifully witty and satiric look at activism and public education. Also, it's hilarious! I found myself laughing out loud several times at the antics of Meegz & Co., both in the present and the past. And if that isn't incentive enough to get this play on it's feet--the fantastic pillow fight should seal the deal. Well done, Ian!!!

Hey student actors! Are you disenchanted with academic administration? Then read this comedy, and perform it! This comedy is an intelligent, probing satire and criticism of administrative politics--- and it will certainly ruffle some feathers in administration. Honest, necessary political theatre just right for a daring group of actors. It's a lot of fun, with quick witty dialog. There's a pillow fight!!! The statement on student activism at the end of the play is powerful. There's no play like this.